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FOOTNOTES:
[1] See Lodge and Howard, Philosophical Magazine for July, 1889. See also Phil. Mag., August, 1888, page 229.
[2] Cf. sections 157A, 143, 187, and chap. xvi., of my Modern Views of Electricity.
[3] Radian is the name given by Prof. James Thomson to a unit angle of circular measure, an angle whose arc equals its radius, or about 57°.
[4] The word "stationary" is ambiguous. I propose to use "stagnant," as meaning stationary with respect to the earth, i.e. as opposed to stationary in space.
[5] Lord Rayleigh, Nature, March 25, 1892.
[6] It does not seem to have been noticed that in Query 22, quoted in the Introduction to the present book, Newton seems to throw out a curious hint in this same direction,—though he immediately abandons it again. He does not appear to have carefully edited his queries; probably they were published posthumously.
[7] On doing the arithmetic, however, I find the necessary concentration absurdly great, showing that such a mass is quite insufficient. (See Appendix 1.)
[9] Address to Section A of British Association at Montreal, 1884.
[10] Philosophical Magazine, Dec., 1887.
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